Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa.

- Foreword. - Part I Digital and Political Economy of the Media.- The Sustainability and Economic Impact of Covid-19 on Media Houses in Uganda and Ethiopia.- Political Economy of Covid -19 and Impact on Media Management and Sustainability in Nigeria.- Impact of Covid-19 on the Digitisation of Namibian Media.- Covid 19 and Media Viability in Southern Africa: Glimpses from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.- Part II Journalism Practice, Audiences and News Discourses.- Critical Journalism During Covid-19 Pandemic: Coverage of Corruption in Zimbabwe Online News.- Constructive Journalism and Covid -19 Safe Narratives in Zimbabwe a Case of the Herald Reportage of Corona Pandemic.- Endangered Voices: Nigerian Journalists'' Safety Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Framing Poverty in Nigerian Online Media Reports on the Maiden Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day.- Face-to Face with COVID-19: Experiences of Ghanaian Frontline Journalists Infected with the Virus.- A Comparative Discourse Analysis of African Newspaper Reports on Global Epidemics: A Case Study Ebola and Coronavirus.- Citizen Journalism and Health Communication in Pandemic Prevention and Control.- "This is a Punishment to America" Framing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe''s Mainstream Media.- Part III Regulation, Representation and Marginalisation.- Cyber Crimes Law, Citizenship: Journalism Clampdown in Times of Covid in Tanzania.- Framing the Aids Discourse: Authority Versus Non-Authority Sources in Uganda''s HIV Aids News Reporting.- Weapons of Oppressors: Covid -19 Regulatory Framework and Impact on Journalism Practice in South Africa.- Media Discourses on Gender in Covid-19 Times in Zimbabwe.